My V220w 8GB pendrive is become readonly.I dont want to format it as the data is too important to me. I have tried running the command "Attribute disk clear readonly". But Current Read-only status is not changing.Kindly help.

i am having lenovo G550. few days back i met a problem.whenever i insert a pendrive the folders inside my pendrive doesn't get opened and they are stored as shortcuts. i formatted my pendrive lot of time..still the problem occurs and am not able to open any file in pendrive..please help.

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Answer:g550 pendrive issue

swathi wrote:i am having lenovo G550. few days back i met a problem.whenever i insert a pendrive the folders inside my pendrive doesn't get opened and they are stored as shortcuts. i formatted my pendrive lot of time..still the problem occurs and am not able to open any file in pendrive..please help.Did you test another pendrive?

5 % (percentage) pen drive is detected but 95% pen drive is not detected.in vista .i dont know what i do

Answer:Windows Vista USB pendrive detection issue

... how large is the pen drive?... I have one that is 8GB divided into 50% partitions I can alter the sizes to suit... 4GB is password locked this usb device shows 2 drive icons (1 locked)... was there any software with the pen drive?... if you post the pen drive make etc perhaps we can find it for you!.... Posting is provided "AS IS" with no warrantieshttp://img692.imageshack.us/img692/...Grrrr... ...im

my pendrive is detected but other pendrives are not detected my lapy.
i have windows 7 pro os registered but i dont have product key. i forgott my key.
now my windows 7 is format so i need product key.
could you please give a my win 7 pro product key?

HI,I was reading an article the other day about a chap who had spybot and other spyware software on his usb pendrive,and not on his pc i was wondering if it wasn't installed on any pc how was he running the spybot etc, on any machine to check for errors spyware without it being installed on the pc it was just on his pendrive.Puzzles me or is it me? help.Thanks daiol.

Answer:pendrive's

I think he probably had the installer executables on the pen drive. Then he could go to any PC with a USB port and install the program without having to download (especially if the internet connection wasn't working).I've done a similar thing with a collection of anti-malware and diagnostic programs burned to a CD.

I have a new laptop on XP Home and a user account as the administratoraccount.Plugged in a usb2 pen drive and I am told on screen "that aceess to the pendrive is denied. Consult your adminstrator".I open up my user account and cannot find any help on how to gain that access.

Answer:USN pendrive

First question, do you use USB for anything else?In other words, could it be turned off?

Dear FriendsThis issue may be repeated, and may occur to any of usI have a USB flash drive, of 8GBit worked fine for months,but unfortunately, it is not working any more!If inserted, the computer recognizes it as a flash drive, and places it in the "Safely Remove Hardware",but if we tried to open it, it says "Insert disk in drive..."I saw it's properties it says: Rmovable disk>>> Size 0MB !!!where the media gone?I tried to format it says "no disk in drive..."I tried to fix using HP recovery, and other utilities, but it insists on, "No disk in drive"

Is there is something to do?Please help...

Answer:USB pendrive 8GB=0MB

This can happen when the drive is not removed properly.Plug in the drive,then go to "my computer".Right click the drive and click eject.Remove the drive and restart the computer.Try the drive again.

My USB pendrive is not being detected. I tryed on 3 differents computers, every time the Windows install the pendrive but I can't see it nowhere, not even in disk management in computer management.Can anyone help?

I have a P4 computer but its RAM is just 256 MB. If anyone knows any method to use a pendrive as a RAM, please tell it to me. Thanks in advance.

Answer:Using Pendrive as a RAM on XP

This is not recommended, not practical, and I don't think it's possible. USB Storage Devices store memory as Flash memory, which is different than the type of memory used in your RAM. They are accessed differently and have different characteristics.The main difference is that the Flash Drive retains its memory when the power is turned off, whereas the RAM is completely erased when you turn off the power.Also, if you manage to get the USB Drive working as RAM, it would be like driving a car without circular wheels. It is just too slow to be used as RAM.Can you not purchase any more RAM? It doesn't come too expensive.

hi i have a 4gb usb pendrive ,i want to keep all my photoes on,(about 2.5gb ) in total i have loaded all of them from my h/d onto the pendrive,but i can only view 1 gb,all the otherscome up with an error saying that i can not open them because the are in a(pcd file extension) it alos give me the oppertunity to rename them but that dose not work, i am sure they were all in "jpg" on my h/d ,so i cant figure out whtas going on.in total i have 84 folders in jpg format on my h/d,on the pendrive i have 84 folders, i can only read 22 in jpg all the rest are in (pcd).i hope someone on here can understand what im saying many thanks for reading this

Answer:4gb usb pendrive only using 1gb ?

this is a blind guess but it could be the 84 folders some equipment does not like too many folders. Could you start again but nest the folders inside other folders so that the drive sees a smaller no.

Have you checked your tv manufacturer's website to see if your tv can play movies from just a usb flash drive as most lcd tv's don't do that if this is what you mean. The usb slot on a TV is there mainly for updates for itself, although having said that there is a few that will let you play a slideshow of pictures from it.

Have a look online at LG's website typing in your tv's make model/serial number, it will definitely tell you.

I have 2 GB ram in my Computer. I want to upgrade my ram if i will buy it from market it can be very costly so i want to use pendrive as a ram is anyone is here who can help me how to use pendrive act like as a ram.

my pendrive was working in a verry good conditin with good transfrer rate,but suddenly it is not getting detected ,but other pendrives are getting detected in my system.is there anything we can do about pendrive

Answer:pendrive problem

Have you tried it in another computer? If it doesn't work on multiple computers then its failed and simply needs to be replaced.

My pen drive can't be detected in any computer. when plug in to pc shows, 'USB Device Not Recognized' and ' One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, Windows does not recognize it'. When i check in device manager it shows 'Unknown Device'. Please help me coz got some important data inside. Dont have back up too. Ur help is highly appreciated. thank u.

Answer:Pendrive does not work in USB

welcome to TSG - I have moved you post into a thread of its own, please do not put your questions in other peoples posts

i can't format or copy any data into my pendrive It shows that Pendrive is write protected..!!please do help...

Answer:pendrive not able to format...!!

Worst case: Your pen drive is dead. A pen drive that has gone through thousands of Read/ Write cycles can die a natural death when its flash controller decides that it had had its full run and it is no longer safe to write any data on it.(simple non-technical explanation. )

Since you have not given any details about the pen drive in question like the model/make/capacity, for how long you have been using it, whether it is still under warranty, whether other pen drives works normally on your computer,whether you had tried this pen drive on another computer and with what results, and if it shows in the Windows Disk Management how does it appear (is it RAW) etc., etc., it is not possible to give any specific suggestion to deal with that problem.

I have such problem in the my job, one PC does not recognizes usb pendrives, i re-install windows, all .inf files are in system folder but when i connect usb pendrive computer does not recognizes, pop ups error from the right low side of monitor.

Satellite m30x...
I can't boot from a bootable pendrive.
I tryed different pendrives (USB1 & 2) and boot system files.
Any hint ?

Ciao from Italy

Answer:Boot from pendrive

Hello fabri22,

I have found this on Toshiba knowledgebase.
Maybe it will help you.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=403623&moid=835431&BV_Sessi [email protected]@@@[email protected]@@@&BV_EngineID=ccc hadddjhjfhddcgfkceghdgngdgnn.0&ct=SB

I use kaspersky internet security but it does not protect my pendrive. Today I saw something called "newfolder.exe" was automatically creating folders and subfolders flawlessly but kaspersky did nothing. Actually kaspersky couldn't prevent. Also detected "autorun.inf" and asked me to do a restart. I restarted thne again same thing happened. Then I went to my friends house then I scanned my pendrive on his pc with Norton. norton detected something called trojan and immediately removed that shit from my pendrive and helped me to get trolled as I'm a kaspersky fanboy sorry I forgot to take screen shot. How to get rid of this kind of usb virus or so?????

do note that norton deleted virus from my pendrive along with all my documents without single permission.

Answer:Best pendrive protection for pc

I am pretty sure kaspersky can scan usb drives. If you enable auto-scan when inserted in kaspersky settings it will always do it.

Maybe you have it turned off?I just googled quickly and this is the first site i found to show how to enable it in kaspersky settings.

Good morning to all.
Since the latest windows 10 update, When I insert a usb pen drive into usb port on my laptop it don't show up I have to go into the File explorer to open the drive,And this is the same with a usb hdd.
Been looking in the auto runs section but failed to solve the problem.
Any Help on this Please, I know its not a major issue but annoying.
Many thanks David.

Answer:USB Pendrive problem

Hi Dafydd,

Go into settings and make sure your AutoPlay is configured to open the folders for removable drives:

Hi
I got one weird problem with my new pendrive (bought 3). Cannot copy any dvd or avi file inside the pendrive (Steelmate 32gb). All data related to dvd/avi cannot be opened. I've try already with regular pendrive, evrything fine. When I bought the pendrive, seller state inside the auction page "designed exclusively for microsoft office data only". Other file like worksheet/picture/software running smooth with
the pendrive. I really think there no faulty hardware error with the drive. Maybe some kind of unlocked thing. Hope somebody can give me an idea. TQ .

I've already:

Format the pendrive
Scan for faulty
Zip the dvd/avi n move to the drive

When I plug my usb pendrive into usb port computer hangs. If I go 'ctl'+'alt'+'del' it tells me prog.'MSQSRV32' not responding. only way out is to end task. After this if I go to 'device manager' the icon for pendrive has red X on it and properties tell me windows has had trouble accessing mass storage device. I am running windows 98se and processor is a pentium MMX.Does anyone out there have a fix for this problem.I have also re-installed the drivers and problem persists.

Answer:usb pendrive problems

it looks like a driver problem, I have never seen anything in device manager with a red x, usually only a yellow conflict sign.What type of pendrive is it, and where did you buy it?the only thing I can think of is to run the system file checker, put the w98 cd in the drive, click start, run and type sfc and allow it to replace any corrupted files from the cd.

Good morning to all.
Since the latest windows 10 update, When I insert a usb pen drive into usb port on my laptop it don't show up I have to go into the File explorer to open the drive,And this is the same with a usb hdd.
Been looking in the auto runs section but failed to solve the problem.
Any Help on this Please, I know its not a major issue but annoying.
Many thanks David.

i formatted my pendrive with Innostor Mp Tool and then it changed to Innostor NAND Flash Drive.Now i cant access it,format it nor create a partition.i tried many softwares but none helped.The VID is 1F75 and PID is 0916.please help!!!!

hi i am using an acer aspire4736 model laptop.unknowingly i have cleared registryfiles with tuneup software.From then my system is not loading o.s.just it is showing boot options then a blank screen is appearing and again boot options like that.and i tried to boot it from pendrive but it is showing the option to boot from pendrive but i was unable to boot.then i tried with a DVD then it is not showing any option to boot from a DVD.please help me.

Answer:boot from pendrive

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hi i am using an acer aspire4736 model laptop.unknowingly i have cleared registryfiles with tuneup software.From then my system is not loading o.s.just it is showing boot options then a blank screen is appearing and again boot options like that.and i tried to boot it from pendrive but it is showing the option to boot from pendrive but i was unable to boot.then i tried with a DVD then it is not showing any option to boot from a DVD.please help me.Click to expand...

This seems like a fairly standard message - but I just can't figure it out?!

When I plug the pendrive in I can't 'see' it in my computer.

Someone has said it may be to do with the fact that I'm at work and have some network drives mapped. I've been into 'Control Panel' and then 'Admin Tools' and then 'Computer Management' and then 'Disk Management' - and then I can 'see' the pendrive is connected.

It seems to be automatically mapped to 'E:' - but then when I go back to 'My Computer' 'E:' isn't one of the drive letters being shown?!

Help please!!

Thanks - James.

Answer:Sony USB 2.0 Pendrive

The E: drive is probably one of your network drives. Are you sure it is not listed in My Computer. Network drives' letters are displayed in the end of the drives description.

Just change the USB pen's drive letter in Disk Managment to something that is definently not used.

I have a problem in my laptop, whenever I insert a pendrive in my lappy it creates a shortcut of that USB and the files don't open.If I open the shortcut and then put my file in it , the file opens, It is affecting my lappy as well as other's. Some of my friends laptop has got affected because of this issue and some pendrive have stopped working. It gets write protected and also got .dll error.Please suggest me something as soon as possible. I would be greatful to you people.

Answer:Pendrive having shortcut

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I was having a problem with my windows laptop, I have a pendrive that I want to install Ubuntu with I already installed all the files to it but when I boot up the laptop it loads windows any help?
Also it is not a problem with the pendrive I tried it on another laptop and the installation booted properly

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GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).Click to expand...

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No installation needed - just plug the drive into any Windows or Linux computer, and click on the Virtual Privacy Machine icon and you're ready to go.The VPM's network connection will auto configure and run seamlessly on any machine with a working internet connection..

All Internet session data (cookies, history, downloads, etc.) are stored on the VPM, not the host computer.Runs on any rewriteable media (USB drives, Flash Memory cards, Secure Digital devices, iPods, etc.)This PR1 release runs on Windows and Linux - final release version will also run on OS X.Click to expand...just might be in the front page tommrow GmailFS might be too

i recently bought a 8Gb pendrive and i faced a problem in detecting it....after a few month using it i found that the pendrive couldn't be detected by a PC or laptop...i was wondering what is the problem and if anyone could help me to solve this i would be very thankful...

When I tried to format my pendrive is not working ,it is also showing in hidden.Help to access to my files.

Answer:My pendrive is not functioning

Welcome to eightforums,try the free version of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard - EaseUS Data Recovery Software to Recover Lost Files Back ,should recover at least a Giga of your data.Always back up and dont forget to back up!

my pendrives nowdays are frequently been stolei dont know who did itso now i wanna ask your help to lock the pendrivei tried using bitlocker but i doubt the securityi want it to be locked,unwritable and most importantly unformatable i google for the softwares but each software has it own functionis there other ways to lock my pendrive?additional- i dont know if this sounds logic but can you trace your pendrive?maybe by putting something in the pendrive and track it when the person plugged the pendrive and then we trace it over the internet find their ip address maybe?

Answer:pendrive locking

no you cant trace it through ip it which is your pendrive company some pendrive companies have their own locking program

i have pen drive. it contain some folders. after inserting in my friends system.. it shows all my folders as shortcuts. but in drive property space is not reduce. i was scanned with my avast5.0 and latest McAfeeit detected two viruses bit it didn't bring my files back..

Answer:about virus in my pendrive

You can use avira to remove these virusyou can use trojan remove toohttp://www.simplysup.com/tremover/d...you can use this software to recover your usb datahttp://www.recoverdatatools.com/usb...

I had got a friend's pendrive and double clicked it to open. All of a sudden my antivirus Kaspersky got disabled and my pc crashed. After restarting I got the following as my XP sp3 opened:::
A window appears with the title:
"Can't run 16 bit windows program"
Within the window it states:
"Insufficient memory to run this application. Quit one or more windows applications and then try again."
Then I could not run any system .exe files like command prompt, msconfig, etc, nor did my antivirus work(it was still disabled).I couldn't open my web browser google chrome or firefox. I am currently using IE7. Then the weirdest thing happened. I installed a game after all this happened and it worked quite fine, but as soon as I inserted my XP cd to format, my system could not detect it. Even when I inserted my Kaspersky disc it did not detect the disk, but any other disc is easily read without any trouble. Both XP and Kaspersky discs are otiginal and I am stcuk!!! Please help!!!!

Answer:pendrive virus

Hello and welcome to TSF.

We want all our members to perform the steps outlined in the link given below, before posting for assistance. There's a sticky at the top of this forum, and a
Quote:

Having problems with spyware and pop-ups? First Steps

link at the top of each page.

Please follow our pre-posting process outlined here:

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After running through all the steps, you shall have a proper set of logs. Please post them in a new topic, as this one shall be closed.

If you have trouble with one of the steps, simply move on to the next one, and make note of it in your reply.

Please note that the Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help forum is extremely busy, and it may take a while to receive a reply.

Hi, I have a pen drive of 64 GB having some important data in it, I have taken backup of my important data, the problem is that if i am copying any data into this, copied data not appearing, i tried this many times but still data not appearing. my previous data is still in it and appearing i am able to use my data and can copy to my computer but i am unable to copy more files into it,if i try to delete all files of my pendrive, it processed done but files reappear and coming back in my pendrive,also it is not formatting saying "Window was unable to complete format".I have also tried cmd, disk management and third party software like EaseUS, PartitionGuru etc. but Pendrive is not formatting.please suggest any solution.

I have just bought a 4 gb pen drive. My laptop which runs vista will recognise it but my desktop pc does not and also when I insert the pendrive my pc crashes and will not restart or close downAny help on solving this much appreciatedIt is a sandisk

Answer:vista and pendrive

inserting the drive before you start the PC?What happens if you do that?

I copied a file from my friend's laptop..And after i copied i saw that he had a virus called username.exe and it created a "keshav.exe" in every folder of his laptop... each is a un-openable, un-deletable, exe file of 178 kb...Now its in my pendrive...How can i get rid of it in my pendrive and his laptop...Formatting the pendrive doesn't work...

Luckily i din put it in my PC so its still safe..But there is an important file i want to copy from the pendrive..Pls help...Thanks in advance...

Hi, I have an r32 and I'm trying to boot from a pendrive to start Ubuntu. I used the Ubuntu creator to make a bootable pendrive. When I press F12 and choose "usb external drive" it boots into windows xp. So far I changed the setting allowing usb to run as "a" drive but it still boots into xp. The Ubuntu live cd boots up fine. Thanks,

Answer:Booting from pendrive in R32

Welcome to the forum!R32, like any other ThinkPad from that generation (A31/p, T30) will NOT boot from a pendrive.It WILL boot from a conventional USB CD-ROM or FDD.Hope this helps.

my DVD drive is not detecting any cd/dvd.So I want to install XP sp2 from pendrive, please tell me the procedure for this.

Answer:to install XP sp2 with pendrive

Hi durgesh_mmm and welcome to TSF !

Make sure you changed the boot order priority to CD-rom first in the BIOS.

If the DVD/CD drive is really dead then the easiest solution would be to replace it or borrow a friend's for the time of the installation. If this is a laptop you can use an external DVD drive (if the laptop doesn't support booting from an USB device you won't be able to use another method anyway).

What's the brand and model of your computer or of your motherboard ? You'll need to make your USB drive bootable, have a motherboard that supports booting from USB devices and edit several files because XP isn't designed to be installed from an USB drive.

I have moserbaer 4gb pendrive.i use the Novicorp WinToFlash 0.6.0005 beta tool to make my usb bootable it works well i m able to installed windows 7 on my pc .But when i plug thid usb into anthor system it did not works i tried it on 4 different systems. It show the usb is not recoginized by windows XP.... i also tried window device manager properties.It did not work...Plz help me............................

Good day.
Been using True Crypt on my desktop and its working fine,I have several important medical info stored in the True crypt file.And I also have a backup of the files.
Now what I'm looking for is for some easy explanation on getting True crypt to work on my 8GB pen drive,Would that be possible on an 8GB drive or would I need a larger one,The files that I have saved on the desktop are in PDF format so maybe the 8GB would be okay?
Now is it straight forward for me to get this software on to my pen drive which a backup of the files in question are on it.
Looking for a straight forward method,Do I leave the pen drive in the FAT format or would it have to be changed?
Many Thanks In Advance.

Answer:Using TrueCrypt on a pendrive

See this:Encrypting a USB drive using TrueCrypt (Windows users)

Note: I have not done this. Read the article and you know as much as I do.

My pendrive not recognize message comes when i plug my pendrive. This is due to in past i try to format pendrive and that time it shows unable to format and the message appears 'usb not recognize '.what is solution pls tell

If you've had it for a while it may have reached the end of it's life. There is a limit to how many times you can write to it, and a limit to how long it will retain the data that's on it.I have found the original low capacity ones to be far more reliable, I'm still using a 1GB one after 5 years daily use, whereas the 8GB one I bought didn't last more than a year. So I no longer buy them. I use external hard drives instead. They cost more initially but are more reliable and last longer so you actually save money over the longer term.

I have 10 GB files in my pendrive but I am not able to see it those files are invisible. I change the folder option but still those aare invisible how can I get my files back . Can any one please help me to get my files back?

Yumi works very well but I think you may have problems with two Windows Install ISOs. There is a specific mention of that in the documentation. I don't have any install ISOs but I have a WinRE repair ISO, A Macrium Boot ISO, Puppy Linux, Memtest86 and the Hirens CD on mine.

Sir, I have 4gb kingston pendrive. I want to partition it into three parts(three drives)Is it possible if yes plz tell me how

Answer:Partition of pendrive

1) Windows will not let you create or see multiple partitions on removable media. But you can do it with linux. See this page.

[SOLVED] Making multiple partitions on USB memory stick

2) Another approach is to try and turn your USB drive into a fixed disk by ‘flipping’ the removable bit in the firmware. This is the digital flag that tells Windows whether the drive is ‘fixed’ or ‘removable’. You can do this using the Lexar BootIt utility.

I copied a file from my friend's laptop..And after i copied i saw that he had a virus called username.exe and it created a "keshav.exe" in every folder of his laptop... each is a un-openable, un-deletable, exe file of 178 kb...Now its in my pendrive...How can i get rid of it in my pendrive and his laptop...Formatting the pendrive doesn't work...

Luckily i din put it in my PC so its still safe..But there is an important file i want to copy from the pendrive..Pls help...Thanks in advance...

Answer:Help...USERNAME.exe in my pendrive..

The General Security forum is only for general questions regarding security software and things of that nature but not for actually removing malware as we have qualified helpers who are the only members who are authorized to assist with those matters. You can easily identify them as they have either a gold or blue shield beside their usernames. Please refer to this excerpt from the rules:

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Log Analysis/Malware Removal - In order to ensure that advice given to users is consistent and of the highest quality, those who wish to assist with security related matters must first graduate from one of the malware boot camp training universities or be approved by the administration as already being qualified. Those authorized to help with malware issues have a gold shield next to their name and authorized malware removal trainees have a blue shield next to their names. If you'd like to participate in a training program, please contact a Moderator or see this article.Click to expand...

I'm going to close this thread and ask you to repost in the Malware Removal & HijackThis Logs forum for the proper assistance.

I have a problem in my laptop, whenever I insert a pendrive in my lappy it creates a shortcut of that USB and the files don't open.
If I open the shortcut and then put my file in it , the file opens, It is affecting my lappy as well as other's. Some of my friends laptop has got affected because of this issue and some pendrive have stopped working. It gets write protected and also got .dll error.
Please suggest me something as soon as possible. I would be greatful to you people.

Answer:Pendrive having shortcut

Hello and Welcome.

This pen drive seems like it may be infected. You might want to think about formatting it, and stop spreading what might be on it.

We want all our members to perform the steps outlined in the link I'll give you below, before posting for assistance. There's a sticky at the top of this forum, and a
Quote:

I have a 32 Gb pendrive which used to work, but now won't format. I get the error message "Windows was unable to complete the format."When I go into properties for the pendrive, it says that the File System is RAW.Is this behind the problem, and is it fixable?Running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3.

Answer:pendrive won't format

from kioskea.net1. insert the pendrive 2. dont open or format it directly 3. right click on my computer and go to manage 4.in computer managment window click on disk managment option 5. right click on the removable disk (i,h....) 6. select format

i have a verbatim 2GB store n Go USB pendrive. the problem is i can't accsess my work as the USB slots both at college and on my laptlop won't read my USB pendrive.

hoe can i go about sorting this problem out as i need my work back ASAP

Answer:USB pendrive problem

hum; sad to say, it may all be lost. XP has not been kind to USB Flash drives.
The typical user error is to unplug the device without using the Safe To Remove
feature OR its brother right-click-->menu-->Eject

ALL USB Flash devices are formated FAT32 so you might try mounting it on
some other kind of system (Mac / Linux)

Is it possible to install XP onto a USB pendrive and boot it from there? If it is possible, how to do it?

Also, does it have any drawbacks, disadvantages? I think I read somewhere that flash drives have a maximum lifetime, which is measured in write operations performed on them. If the number of write operations exceed this number, the flash drive will eventually get unreliable. And, given that Windows is using the pagefile almost constantly, it will ruin a flash drive in a few hours. Can any expert confirm this?

Thanks,

Jimmy

PS: A little background for those interested.I want this because I want to separate my internet banking operations from all the rest I do with my computer. So I need a second system, which is securely away when I work or surf or play, and which, therefore, is inaccessible for any possible attacks originating from viruses or hackers. (So a 2nd partition won't do, because it's part of the system all the time.) I don't like the idea of always changing hard drives, whenever I want to do banking, so I need an external source for booting the OS. USB pendrives came to mind.

i everyone,i bought a pendrive 4gb a week ago n now it isn't working.'the disk needs to be formatted' apperars upon inserting it n 'windows cannot complete formatting' appears wen i try to format it. i cannot open or explore the pendrive. it also shows zero capacity. i'm using vista home premium, RAM: 4gb and HDD: 250 gb. plz help.

I had purchased a Transcend Jet Flash 700 USB 3.0 16 GB Pendrive from Flipkart in mid September 2011. The pendrive is not even a year old.

Yesterday I inserted my pendrive in a friend's laptop to transfer files of around 1.5GB. The pendrive had more than 10GB free space. 70-80% of the transfer was done but then his laptop's battery drained off and the laptop obviously got shut down. Since then, whenever I insert my pendrive in any device the blue light on it blinks for around 10 seconds and then the light turns off too. The pendrive is not detected.

I have tried reading the pendrive on my friend's laptop, on my laptop and my tablet too. On each device, the pendrive's light blinks for about 10 seconds but nothing happens.

Please help, is there any way by which I can fix it?

Answer:Pendrive not being detected - Please help

Do you get any error message?

Does the pendrive show up in Disk Management? If so a screenshot will be helpul to give a trageted solution hopefully.

That said, if you do not have any data that you may want to recover, you may try Jetflash Online recovery

I have few PNY USB Pen drives, which were recognized and read properly earlier. My XP operating system had a virus problem and I had to re-format and re-install again. Since then the system does not detect th PNY USB Pen Drives. It detects and reads other pen drives such as JetFlash. I have checked the PNY Pen drives on other computers, and they work just fine.
Anybody can give me some solution to this?

I was formatting my pendrive and msg came windows unable to format and now my pendrive is not shown by any computer nor in disk management not in device manager wat to do its 16 gb v215b model.it is not detected by computer...pls help

HELP-my pendrive has broken(almost snapped in fact) and contains word files that I need tomorrow. The files were only saved on the pendrive-will there be a copy hidden anywhere on the laptop's hard drive that I can access?All help appreciated cheers

Answer:Help!! Pendrive broken

If you had autosave on there may be files in the 'temp' folder. if you can remember the names do a search on the name.

Today, i bought myself a 512mb pendrive, i wanted to use it, windows recognized it as a removable drive without any problems, so i drag-n-dropped a file onto the drive window, but it froze at 30 percent

Ive tried rebooting but no change, the files were still freezing at 20-50 percent

Ive tried to disconnect, and then connect my pendrive, but this also didnt work

I went to a friend of mine to see if this is because of a badly manufactured pendrive, but at his place everything seems to work out ok

Now, im quite a newb to computers, so if you guys could hook me up with any solutions do this, id be very thankful

My system is winxp sp1

Answer:Pendrive problem

first i would say, get sp2 and all the updates, and you'r sure you have no bugs, i would try to copy one file using xp right click. can't get much in 512mb.but clean temps. defrag, run chkdisk, unplug it, restart, nothing else running, try again.

Recently i have bought a Sony MICROVAULT USM8GR USB Flash Drive.After buying i plugged it in the usb port. the Usb driver installed correctly. But when i opened My Computer,the drive was nowhere to be seen. I opened Disk management,but it shows that the drive is not loated.i rebooted the computer,uninstalled the universal serial ports, installed driver....but no result....plzz help!!

I had use recovery software and recover the date from pendrive, at the time power failure on my system. Later it works partially, just read the data but not format any file. After i recover another time the pendrive was fully not working. I had tried many steps for recovery through internet. But no use. Is there any possible ways to recovery or not.

I just formated my computer and the next day I check my hard drives and I get a PENDRIVE folder? Any ideas to fix it? Only thing i can think of that I might of caused it was, trying to remove dual boot from xp on my seprate hard drive and I might of removed something that wasnt suppose to be removed.

Answer:PENDRIVE Hard Drive?

Hello zurk12.

What happens if you right click F: and select "Open" are there files to view?

I have this grave situation. I bought a 4GB PNY pen drive and I locked it using USB enter software. Later after a month the subscription to this software expired and accidentally I formatted my pen drive. Now I can see only 541KB memory available on pen drive. Rest of the space is locked somewhere in the folder which was allocated to USB enter software and which I formatted. I tried everything and searched every forum and nothing of help. Can anyone please help me with this....I am using Windows 7 and XP both.

Answer:USB pendrive's memory locked

Are you trying to recover the data from the drive or are you trying to get the full amount of memory back?

Hi.
I have been experiencing abberant pendrive behaviour, and don't know what the problem might be.

I can upload files to it, but when I try to copy anything back to my hard drive, after copying one directory it gets stuck and then it says something about bad parameters, and then when I access the drive (the pendrive) it shows as blank.

Can anyone recommend a piece of software that diagnoses flash memory problems or tests such memories for errors, or otherwise explain what the problem might be?

I am running windows xp sp2 on a desktop with AMD Athlon 2400+ and the pendrive is plugged in through an extension USB cable into the mainboard's usb socket.

Hi,My pen drive has approx 1.4 Gb of data but when i pug in it does not show anything. I am attaching a screen shot. contents can be retrieved by searching and opened also but are not visible. I have used the "show hidden files and folders" but zilch.Please guide.Zerbat

can i get an anti-virus that can be installed on the pendrive n detect the virus as soon as it is plugged into sumother pc .aws for now i have been suffering with these virus only due to the pendrives whw come r with the virus whw effect my pc a lot .so can we install an anti-virus which will alert us before virus tries to infect it.

Answer:Anti-virus for PENDRIVE?

Use Microsoft Security Essentials, it will detect and warn you real time.In addition use Malwarebytes to scan, weekly, for malware. Malware is not always the same as a virus.

Hi,
I have a Sandisk cruzer blade 8 gb pendrive, when i used to create a bootable usb using windows iso tool an error occured and its showing write protected while formatting. I have tried almost all the ways to format but nothing worked.Hoping a solution.[IMG][/IMG]

Answer:Pendrive Write Protected

My Cruzers are write protected, and I think it's done in hardware. Mine have a little OS on them that asks for a password, then unlocks the drive for use. For security reasons, I think that lock/unlock is implemented in hardware. I wasn't able to partition mine either.

Thumb drives are cheap these days. Just pick up a non secured one to make a bootable drive.